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Convinced that the weapon can end World War II, he gives them 19 months to make it at Los Alamos, New Mexico. John Cusack is featured as Michael Merriman, a young Chicago physicist who learns in a tragic way the plutonium dangers of the bomb they euphemistically call the "gadget" or the "device." The screenplay by Bruce Robinson and Roland Joffe plutonium conveys the secrecy of the project; the drive and discipline of the scientists; the fatal flaw of all those involved in the creation of the two bombs plutonium — nicknamed Fat Man and Little Boy — namely, the refusal to consider the long-term consequences of these terrible weapons. In the end, Groves pushed the project through knowing that Congress expected to see results from their $2 billion investment.
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